The Fighting Dragons of Ara SHO

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Date image was taken: 8/14/2020

Image Title: NGC6188 - The Fighting Dragons of Ara SHO

Image Description and Details : A pearl of the southern sky with dark shapes and brilliant outlines that cross the dusty NGC6188 spanning decades of light years. This emitting nebula is near the edge of a large, usually dark molecular cloud in the southern constellation of Ara, about 4,000 light-years away.
Lower right, the dragon's egg or the NGC6164 nebula is a bipolar emission type ejected by a Wolf Rayet star located 3,910 light years away. This composition was made with a mosaic of 4 panels and totaling 70 hours of exposure during Jully and mid-August.

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Copyright Information: Patrick Dufour 2020

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